Ranking Every Song from the FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS TV Show

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For the first time since their show ended nine years ago, and 13 years after their amazing One Night Stand special premiered, Flight of the Conchords will fly back to HBO with an all new special. Both members of "New Zealand's fourth most popular comedy-folk duo" have had tremendous solo success since the series ended, with Jemaine Clement becoming a Hollywood star and Bret McKenzie winning an Oscar, but we'll always love them together the most. So to celebrate their glorious return, we're judging every song* from their amazing HBO show based on musical quality, how well they worked within the episode, and how funny they are on their own.

That's right—it's time to get down to business. The business of ranking.

They are all amazing, but they are too different from the "fantasy world" songs that define the series, so it's nearly impossible to compare them—a song like "Rock the Party" is so good because it's intentionally bad. And since we are only judging the version of songs that were included in the series, we aren't ranking "Jenny" from their amazing One Night Stand, but it's still one of their all-time bests.

Sometimes the band embraced its folk music origins, like with this overly dramatic, silly song about Bret falling in love with a girl he saw. Jemaine's interjections don't make sense outside of the episode, but they are really funny, and this would be great to hear live.

The Good: the song makes perfect sense in the episode, it's unquestionably funny, and you can listen to it on its own. The Bad: Surprisingly unoriginal, because it doesn't feel like a tribute to Police's "Roxanne" so much as a direct ripoff.

Few songs ever performed on the show felt more forced than this song about angels having sex, which didn't make any sense within the context of the episode. That knocks it down the list despite being the good kind of stupid.

This pitch-perfect R. Kelly parody would be even higher if it weren't so intimately tied to the events of the episode. You can listen to this on its own, but it's not as funny if you don't know what happened in the episode.

This spoof of The Beatles' later, LSD-heavy tracks is sneakily one of Flight of the Conchords' funniest songs lyrically. They are a combination of complete and total nonsense along with great set-ups and punchlines.

It is still TOTAL CRAP this mixed-genre song about The Lord of the Rings didn't get used at the end of The Hobbit trilogy. The fact this only comes in at number 22 is more a testament to how many amazing songs this show had.

The insecure Bret and Jemaine were always funny when singing about false confidence. This is another parody of a specific song (The Black Eyed Peas' "My Humps") that manages to avoid sounding like a direct copy.

Yes, this technically is a "real world" song, but since it is just the two of them it fits the general vibe of their fantasy world songs. Plus it's too good to be excluded from this list. The last section is one of the show's funniest moments.

Murray's other song is great musically, and one of the funniest from the show. That's actually why it doesn't rank even higher, because the lyrics and the end (when Jemaine comes in to do a dance breakdown) work so much better in the context of the episode. Jemaine's unfinished lyrics might be the single best payoff to any joke in the series. I wish I could watch this episode for the first time again.

It doesn't matter whether you speak French or not, because this jaunty little song's amazing premise is obvious enough. This would earn the number one spot in the best song titles list, because "foux du fa fa" is total nonsense.

If this seems low, remember: we're going by the TV series version of these songs. Unfortunately while still great this is probably the worst version of this song they ever recorded. It's too good not to be funny, but it doesn't pop the way it does during the One Night Stand special. This version is just so much better, and in the discussion for their best song ever.

This self-censoring song is probably the single most impressive performance on the show. They keep making lyrics disappear, and each time it gets funnier and funnier. By the end, Bret is basically making a few unconnected sounds coherent. Musically this is also one of the series' catchiest tracks.

Just like with the next song on the list, this suffers from the same problem as the show's "Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros," but on a much smaller scale. They had already done a better version of it on HBO, but this is still a fantastic rendition and worthy of being in the top ten for the series.

This super silly song about super serious issues is lyrically their best song ever. ("What are your overheads? and "Can somebody please remove these cutleries from my knees" belong in a museum). Not sure if this would rank higher if we never heard the One Night Stand version, or if this is too high because we know how good that one is, but this is still amazing.

We would 100% listen to Bret's lost two-hour cut of "Coco's Song," but we're more than thrilled with the shorter, sweet, crasser version Jemaine helped him re-write. This qualifies as a "real world" song on the show, but it fits perfectly within this list.

The only thing more amazing than the first song in show history being one of the absolute best in the entire series is that it's not even the best song from the pilot. You'll be listening to this song for the rest of your life.

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1. "Not Crying"

A perfect song ends a perfect pilot.

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That song is so funny it makes our eyes sweaty with laughter.

But what does your list look like? What should have been a lot higher? What should have been a lot lower? What do you have number one? Tell us in the comments section below.